Chainmail

Believe it or not, I have some Topix friends who are not liberal democrats. They don't describe themselves as republicans or tea-partiers. They just happen to be people who hate Barak Obama and believe that EVERYTHING he does is wrong....

Sigh.

Well, one of them sent me a chainmail today. It seemed, on the surface, to be about a German woman I had never heard of who had performed an act of valiant bravery in Warsaw Poland during WWII. In a nutshell, she risked life and limb to spirit out as many Jewish babies and young children as she could, knowing what the Nazi's had in store for them. Eventually she was caught and beaten for her work.

The jist of the chainmail *seemed* to be that, still, after 63 years, she had not been awarded for her efforts with a Nobel Peace Prize.

Well, I don't think that's why she did it in the first place....

But, the chainmail noted, Al Gore and Barak Obama HAD been awarded Nobel honors!

Neither one won their awards for their respective WWII records. In fact, neither served in WWII. I'm thinking Al Gore was too young and I know Obama had not been born yet. So, yeah, neither man did a fucking thing heroic in WWII. I will concede that. That doesn't make them "pussies" or "draft dodgers". It just makes them "not alive at the time".

The chainmail also included a heart-warming comic strip, one that I don't keep up with, but probably should. In the strip, a little girl is sitting on a park bench with an old man. She notices the tatoo on his arm and remarks that it isn't very interesting nor very well done and that it's just a bunch of numbers. He tells the child that he got it when he was about her age and then tells her why he was given it.

Six million plus Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals and assorted other "undesirables" were murdered by the Nazis. That's the standard figure and it's probably low. And it does not include the Russians killed in battle against the Nazi's or murdered by Stalin or the millions of others who perished fighting tyranny but, the chainmail put that figure at 20 million for the Russians.

The little girl begins to cry as she imagines the horror of war and hatred.

She asks the old man if he keeps the tatoo to remember what happened.

No, he says. It is to remind YOU of what happened...

Very powerful stuff. As I write it, I'm welling up with tears.

So then, heart strings properly tugged, the chainmail goes on to note that Islam denies the holocaust. Well, I don't know about that. I know that they deny pork chops and they are very serious about dress codes for women but, I'm not certain what their stance is on the holocaust. They MIGHT officially believe it never happened and, if so, fuck 'em. This is very recent, very well documented history. For anyone to deny it is insane. That puppet president in Iran comes to mind. But, so do American Nazi's and other idiots who fail to see the vast amount of evidence- much of it documented by the Nazi perpetrators themselves. It happened. It should never happen again. I promise you that I get that part.

What I don't get is how Gore and Obama figure into this. And Nobel prizes and noble German women of yore who have gone unrecognized for their valiant sacrifices. I don't get the connection. When you factor in Islam, I get further lost. Are Al Gore and Barak Obama conspiring with Islam to kill Jews and Russians? Did Gore and Obama, at the very least, conspire to win Nobel Peace Prizes and in doing so, sweep the leg of a deserving German woman? Maybe we should remember the holocaust to make sure it never happens again? So, what is it?

Well, it's chainmail. Mikey in Memphis sent me one the other day about natural selection and stupid people. I *got* that one. Amongst other things, don't stick your head in a sewer grate lest you get stuck and a storm comes along and drowns you.

Yes, we should remember the holocaust and make sure it never happens again, to anyone. ANYONE.

We should also remember the populist leader who brought us the holocaust via his 1930's vision of Germany. We should look into the eyes of populist leaders like Beck, Palin and Bachman and notice the glimmer of evil. And never forget! There is something afoot my friends, both real and imaginary. It is the hate on the right and it's on the rise. For now it's on the internet in the form of "political" websites, Topix chat forums and chainmail but it's seeping into our countrymen's hearts and minds and growing every day. Why, and why NOW, I don't really know.

I don't guess they didn't really know back in Germany in the 30's either. But, then it happened...